Plumulariidae

Plumulariidae is a family of hydrozoans.[1]

Plumulariidae
Plumularia setacea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Leptothecata
Superfamily: Plumularioidea
Family: Plumulariidae
Agassiz, 1862[1]
Genera

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Genus

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following genera belong to this family:[2]

  • Callicarpa Fewkes, 1881
  • Cladacanthella Calder, 1997
  • Dentitheca Stechow, 1919
  • Hippurella Allman, 1877
  • Nemertesia Lamouroux, 1812
  • Plumularia Lamarck, 1816
  • Pseudoplumaria Ramil & Vervoort, 1992
  • Schizoplumularia Ansín Agís, Ramil & Calder, 2016
  • Sibogella Billard, 1911

Plumularidae of America (1900)

Charles Cleveland Nutting, an American zoologist, wrote the first survey of what he then called 'Plumularidæ' of America in 1900.[3] Before him, Louis Agassiz had mentioned only three species in 1862. His son Alexander Agassiz recognized six species. In 1877 George Allman described twenty-six species. Nutting gives descriptions and figures of about one hundred and twenty-one species! He writes:

It is now evident that the West Indian region is the richest in plumularian life of any area of equal size in the world. Not even the Australian region, hitherto regarded as by far the most prolific in these exceedingly graceful organisms, can equal our own southern waters in profusion of genera and species.

— Nutting 1900, p. 1

References
  1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Plumulariidae McCrady, 1859". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Plumulariidae McCrady, 1859". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  3. Nutting 1900, see also: review of Nutting 1900 in The Zoologist, 4th series vol 5, issue 719 (May, 1901), p. 191

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